Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden
比较了美国与瑞典跨国公司的海外子公司生产对母国就业的影响，发现美国公司将劳动密集型生产转移到发展中国家，减少了国内劳动密集度；而瑞典公司主要在发达国家生产，反而增加了母国就业，尤其是蓝领岗位。
We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in US manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. US multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labour‐intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing countries, reducing the labour intensity in their home production. Swedish multinationals produce relatively little in developing countries and most of that has been for sale within host countries with import‐substituting trade regimes. The great majority of Swedish affiliate production is in high‐income countries, the United States and Europe, and is associated with more employment, particularly blue‐collar employment, in the parent companies. The small Swedish‐owned production that does take place in developing countries is also associated with more white‐collar employment at home. The effects on white‐collar employment within the Swedish firms have grown smaller and weaker over time.